This entry to our annual Sir Henry Brooke Student Essay Prize by Benjamin Evans from the University of East Anglia was highly commended by the judges. A second highly commended entry will be published next week….
Law Commission proposes changes to communication offences
Changes would ensure more clarity and more effective targeting of serious harm and criminality….
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Oysterware Ltd v Intentor Ltd: summary judgment refused in software copyright dispute
Application refused as there were triable issues on subsistence and infringement….
Exchanging data securely across borders is essential, says government
National data strategy consultation launched closing on 2 December….
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New Blockchain guidance published by Tech London Advocates and The Law Society
Anne Rose & Sian Harding summarise new guidance on blockchain law and regulation published by the Law Society….
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Law Commission issues final report on protection of official data
Disclosures of official secrets could be made for legal advice purposes if lawyers have been pre-vetted….
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Sir Henry Brooke Student Essay Prize Winner: The greatest regulatory challenges for the Internet of 2030
This year’s winner of our annual Sir Henry Brooke Student Essay Prize is Isabel Lightbody from the University of Law and Dentons….
IPO wants to know more about AI and the implications for intellectual property
Call for views sets out how the IPO believes the IP framework currently relates to AI and raises a number of questions which the IPO believes are of central importance to the future of AI and IP policy….
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EDPB: 101 identical complaints lodged with European DPAs since Schrems II
The European Data Protection Board has set up a Schrems II task force to respond and has also issued two sets of guidelines on the meaning of controller/processor and targeting social media users….
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SRA: biggest cybersecurity risk for law firms is staff
SRA publishes a thematic review of cybersecurity…
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